Random United States Facts

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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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